Some fucker just walked on the boat and...
01-12-2009, 05:05 PM
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First a little background. We have the longest finger dock in the marina, it's about 20 feet longer then any of the other finger docks. A lot of people like to fish off of it and I usually don't say ****, we also have the usual gawkers that come down the finger dock and start loudly talking about the boat. Those asshats I go up top and I say "hey where do you guys live" and they usually say "michigan" or whatever so I then ask "Oh i guess you live in a house" "Oh yea", "well what would you do if some stranger started looking in your bedroom window?" Some of them are dumb and actually reply, but most of them just leave when i say that.
So a little about boater etiqutte, first you NEVER board a boat when the owner isn't around and even your closest friends will always say "Permission to come aboard" it's just a silly formality, but it's also a pleasantry. So on with the story.
I'm sitting here playing xbox and i hear someone step onboard, I'm thinking man Amy must be home early, then the dogs start to growl, what the ****? So i go look and there's a dude with a fishing pole standing on my stern. WHAT THE ****. So I throw open the companion way and say, what the hell is going on out here! The guy mumbles something about fishing line or some **** I don't know. So I say "Stepping aboard someone's boat without permission is a damn good way to get shot" This mother ****** grabs his **** off the dock and almost starts running.
So I'm thinking about getting a little laminated sign that says something to the effect that "We call this boat home, please be respectful" something polite like that, either that or I shoot someone to make an example and yes I would be completely within my rights to do so.
So a little about boater etiqutte, first you NEVER board a boat when the owner isn't around and even your closest friends will always say "Permission to come aboard" it's just a silly formality, but it's also a pleasantry. So on with the story.
I'm sitting here playing xbox and i hear someone step onboard, I'm thinking man Amy must be home early, then the dogs start to growl, what the ****? So i go look and there's a dude with a fishing pole standing on my stern. WHAT THE ****. So I throw open the companion way and say, what the hell is going on out here! The guy mumbles something about fishing line or some **** I don't know. So I say "Stepping aboard someone's boat without permission is a damn good way to get shot" This mother ****** grabs his **** off the dock and almost starts running.
So I'm thinking about getting a little laminated sign that says something to the effect that "We call this boat home, please be respectful" something polite like that, either that or I shoot someone to make an example and yes I would be completely within my rights to do so.
01-12-2009, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' post='914466' date='Jan 12 2009, 06:05 PM
So I'm thinking about getting a little laminated sign that says something to the effect that "We call this boat home, please be respectful"
That would be far too subtle for some people. I'd be more direct and say something like: "If you've been invited here, please make your presence known to the captain. If you haven't been invited, then keep the **** out!"
That, or "Premises protected by Smith and Wesson".
01-12-2009, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' post='914469' date='Jan 12 2009, 06:48 PM
That would be far too subtle for some people. I'd be more direct and say something like: "If you've been invited here, please make your presence known to the captain. If you haven't been invited, then keep the **** out!"
That, or "Premises protected by Smith and Wesson".
That, or "Premises protected by Smith and Wesson".
Yea i might have to leave the keep the **** out part cause the dock management might get a little miffed about that.
01-12-2009, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by 94touring' post='914475' date='Jan 12 2009, 08:10 PM
Please shoot next time with your laser guns. I would love to see that in the news.
It doesn't even make the news here, Florida castle laws are some of the best in the US, texas is the only other one that comes close. It's the ******* wild west out here.... but it's east. I wouldn't even get cuffed for shooting some dude trespassing on my property.
